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. >> education. >> millions of our kids are getting a third world education. >> if you're going to talk about education -- >> this is the civil rights war of our era. >> the election will be decided in a dozen battleground states. the president has a narrow lead in three of them. 48% is enough to put the president ahead of romney, in florida, virginia and ohio. >> the president has been on the attack. >> he's saying, well i 25 years in the private sector. with a special understanding of how our economy works. he's hoping you don't remember the last time we tried it his way. >> good evening, i'm martin bashir in for lawrence o'donnell, tonight on the campaign trail, president obama rallied support in iowa where he pressured mitt romney to explain how bain capital prepared him for the presidency. >> he doesn't really talk about what he did in massachusetts. but he does talk about being a business guy. right, he says, this gives him a special understanding of what it takes to create jobs and grow the economy. even if he's unable to offer a single new idea about how to do that, no matter ho
. >> education. >> millions of our kids are getting a third world education. >> if you're going to talk about education -- >> this is the civil rights war of our era. >> the election will be decided in a dozen battleground states. the president has a narrow lead in three of them. 48% is enough to put the president ahead of romney, in florida, virginia and ohio. >> the president has been on the attack. >> he's saying, well i 25 years in the private...
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ryan is saying his budget doesn't decimate medicare and medicaid and advice rate education. it's a little like mitt romney standing in an unemployment line in florida and turning to the guy and saying look, i didn't outsource your job, i offshored it. >> the vice president was welcomed to florida today by this editorial. obama has been tested by harsh circumstance and proven himself worthy for a second term for president of the united states. the tampa bay times recommends barack obama. "the denver post" editorial board writes today mitt romney's comments on the 47% were a telling insight into his views and a low point of the campaign. obama on the other hand has shown throughout his term that he is a steady leader who keeps the interests of a broad array of americans in mind. we urge colorado answer to re-elect him to a second term. and in utah today, through a pair of presidential debates, romney's domestic agenda remains be rest of detail and worthy of mistrust. therefore our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader who, against tough odds has guided the c
ryan is saying his budget doesn't decimate medicare and medicaid and advice rate education. it's a little like mitt romney standing in an unemployment line in florida and turning to the guy and saying look, i didn't outsource your job, i offshored it. >> the vice president was welcomed to florida today by this editorial. obama has been tested by harsh circumstance and proven himself worthy for a second term for president of the united states. the tampa bay times recommends barack obama....
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it's time to create a solution that can educate women. what does that mean? when we talk about girls' education in pakistan, we're talking about a country where one in five girls are going to school in the region where malala is from. and we're talking about a country with the lowest rate of femality lit race if hfemale il. it's time for the government to focus on it with a lot more attention. to give you a quick example, the government currently spends 2% of its gdp on education. the u.n. suggests that number, to give you some context, should
it's time to create a solution that can educate women. what does that mean? when we talk about girls' education in pakistan, we're talking about a country where one in five girls are going to school in the region where malala is from. and we're talking about a country with the lowest rate of femality lit race if hfemale il. it's time for the government to focus on it with a lot more attention. to give you a quick example, the government currently spends 2% of its gdp on education. the u.n....
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well, what sister farley knows and what every highly educated catholic knows, and by highly educated, i only mean educated in catholicism, what they all know is that the most behaviorally contradicted rules of catholicism on masturbation, on homosexuality, on sex and marriage and procreation in general are all man-made rules and the men who made those rules are the men who gave you the inquisition, and those men didn't have the basic human decency to get the word "inquisition" out of the vatican until 1908. stephen colbert understands the weakness of man-made rules in a church that went on a centuries-long rampage of torture and murder to enforce its rules. that's why colbert, who described himself as, quote, a good catholic, end quote, delights in making fun of the men in the world headquarters of his religion. colbert still loves his church, the way you can still love your country, even though you don't like your country's immigration policy or your country's health care system. the guys in the inquisition office can continue their war on american nuns like sister farley, but she an
well, what sister farley knows and what every highly educated catholic knows, and by highly educated, i only mean educated in catholicism, what they all know is that the most behaviorally contradicted rules of catholicism on masturbation, on homosexuality, on sex and marriage and procreation in general are all man-made rules and the men who made those rules are the men who gave you the inquisition, and those men didn't have the basic human decency to get the word "inquisition" out of...
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education is not granted the way it's granted here. how can we ever think there would be durable peace in these areas without people who have access to education. years ago you used to say you open a school, you close a jail. with that idea, one little girl is more threatening to the taliban today than the pakistani army. the pan stanny often they flirt with these groups and they close an eye on them and they let them govern certain areas. even the americans were protesting more than once say they give them actual information, they give them funds and very often they don't take care of the protection of the civil society in these areas. we have to understand that in the last ten years, americans spent $20 billion only in pakistan. 80% of that budget went directly to the army. 170 million went to education. what we are doing in these countries, we have to think that our policy is about building armies. not about building societities. what malala wanted was to build a civil society that lead to democratization of the place. and lead to t
education is not granted the way it's granted here. how can we ever think there would be durable peace in these areas without people who have access to education. years ago you used to say you open a school, you close a jail. with that idea, one little girl is more threatening to the taliban today than the pakistani army. the pan stanny often they flirt with these groups and they close an eye on them and they let them govern certain areas. even the americans were protesting more than once say...
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. >> somebody gave me an education. i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. michelle wasn't. but somebody gave us a chance. just like these folks are looking for a chance. >> i'm certainly not going to apologize for my dad and his success in life. he was born poor. he worked his way to become very successful despite the fact that he didn't have a college degree. and one of the things he wanted to do was to provide for me and my brother and sisters. i'm not going to apologize for my dad's success. but i know the president likes to attack fellow americans. he's always looking for a scapegoat, particularly those that have been successful like my dad. and i'm not going to rise to that. >> mitt romney is, of course, lying about his father being born poor. we'll have more on that in a moment. the new nbc news "wall street journal" poll out tonight shows mitt romney losing to president obama by six points in a head-to-head match-up with president obama at 49 and mitt romney at 43%. like previous polls, it shows mitt romney getting crushed on the questions relating to who understands
. >> somebody gave me an education. i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. michelle wasn't. but somebody gave us a chance. just like these folks are looking for a chance. >> i'm certainly not going to apologize for my dad and his success in life. he was born poor. he worked his way to become very successful despite the fact that he didn't have a college degree. and one of the things he wanted to do was to provide for me and my brother and sisters. i'm not going to apologize...
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, favors eliminating the department of education. romney, out of step with massachusetts. eliminate the department of education the public mitt romney has attacked president obama, repeatedly for actually saying some of those things. >> and he does that. it's a strange thing. the truth came out the other day, as he spoke with president medvedev of russia. he said, you know, wait until after the election. i can be more flexible then. he's clearly trying to hide from us what he intends to do. you don't say that to the head of russia without making it very clear to anyone listening that you have plans after your re-election that are different than those that you're willing to tell the american people. so he's going to hide. and it's my job to seek and our job to seek. it's going to be a hide and seek campaign and we're going to find out what he's going to do. >> ben la bolt, a spokesman for the obama election campaign released a statement saying, "apparently governor romney believes only high-dollar donors have a right to know which pro
, favors eliminating the department of education. romney, out of step with massachusetts. eliminate the department of education the public mitt romney has attacked president obama, repeatedly for actually saying some of those things. >> and he does that. it's a strange thing. the truth came out the other day, as he spoke with president medvedev of russia. he said, you know, wait until after the election. i can be more flexible then. he's clearly trying to hide from us what he intends to...
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down the department of education. yet you have jeb bush, the former governor of florida who if you listen to his education policy, teacher reform, more charters, more school choice, common core standards, there's a lot of overlap with president obama, and he said so himself. we know romney came out with his version of drill baby drill basically. you have republicans like former congressman from south carolina who's run ang institute at george mason university who says let's have a market-based solution. it has to start with pricing honestly, that means pricing carbon emissions. and then let's let the market work when everything is priced fairly. on immigration, of course, you have rupert murdoch calling for immigration policy that deals humanely with illegal immigrants who are here and working with the most talented immigrants we need to grow our economy. you actually have republicans arguing very sane, intelligent center right positions which i think you could have deals on all four. unfortunately, those center right
down the department of education. yet you have jeb bush, the former governor of florida who if you listen to his education policy, teacher reform, more charters, more school choice, common core standards, there's a lot of overlap with president obama, and he said so himself. we know romney came out with his version of drill baby drill basically. you have republicans like former congressman from south carolina who's run ang institute at george mason university who says let's have a market-based...
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they just want an education. tomorrow is the united nations international day of the girl, which the u.n. says is about highlighting, celebrating, discussing, and advancing girl's lives across the globe. and tonight on the eve of the international day of the girl. this girl, one of the bravest girls in the world, a 14-year-old is lying near debt after being shot in the head and the neck on her school bus yesterday for nothing more than wanting an education for herself and other girls. religious extremists planned to assassinate her on her school bus. the man who got on the bus and shot her and got away is, no doubt, very, very proud of himself tonight. his spokesman certainly is. yes, homicidal religious extremists have spokes menmen in pakistan. ehsanullah ehsan sent a letter to the media today defending the assassination attempt and his defense of the assassination attempt contains specific sigh takings from the koran. the spokesman said, whom so ever leads a campaign against islam and shariah is ordered to be
they just want an education. tomorrow is the united nations international day of the girl, which the u.n. says is about highlighting, celebrating, discussing, and advancing girl's lives across the globe. and tonight on the eve of the international day of the girl. this girl, one of the bravest girls in the world, a 14-year-old is lying near debt after being shot in the head and the neck on her school bus yesterday for nothing more than wanting an education for herself and other girls. religious...
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education secretary was asked if he supports gay marriage. >> he was asked this morning. >> to which he answered yes, i do. >> they knew it would come up. mitt romney had to let go of his spokesman who is gay. >> today on the campaign trail, something important happened. >> mitt romney was asked a question. >> that we need to talk about. someone said something about the president being responsible for treason. >> try the president for treason. >> wait a minute. >> yet again, a soldier moment. >> a failure to lead. >> more mitt romney vp auditions. >> the battle over who will be the next vice president. >> we don't talk about it, right? >> i'm not going to discuss the vice presidency. >> i had great experience as attorney general. >> you do not talk about fight club. >> the presidential election in november will be a nail biter. >> we will move this country forward. we will finish what we started. god bless the united states of america. >> with two new polls out today, the issue of the day is marriage equality. a new poll shows romney at 48% and president obama at 47% while a u.s. tod
education secretary was asked if he supports gay marriage. >> he was asked this morning. >> to which he answered yes, i do. >> they knew it would come up. mitt romney had to let go of his spokesman who is gay. >> today on the campaign trail, something important happened. >> mitt romney was asked a question. >> that we need to talk about. someone said something about the president being responsible for treason. >> try the president for treason. >>...
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what did she mean to you in your education at that school? >> i think that most of us all saw her as a team because we were part of a program that was called the summit program, and we worked together, and she would check in on her status on a daily basis and just offer positive reinforcement. >> how did you find out what happened to her? >> um, i work at the head start program in danbury, and so all day we were taking in information and figuring out lockdown. rumors were coming in. some were true. some proved not. the name the principal, which her -- came through, and it didn't come to me until i went home, and my mom called. >> so you found out at home? >> then i knew who the principal was. that just changed the whole day. >> what were your thoughts when you discovered that that's who had been killed? >> i'm glad i knew her. i'm glad she partook in my life. i'm sad that i didn't reach out to her this summer the way i had planned to, but more so i couldn't imagine mr. hochsprung without her because they were, i don't know, just two peas in a
what did she mean to you in your education at that school? >> i think that most of us all saw her as a team because we were part of a program that was called the summit program, and we worked together, and she would check in on her status on a daily basis and just offer positive reinforcement. >> how did you find out what happened to her? >> um, i work at the head start program in danbury, and so all day we were taking in information and figuring out lockdown. rumors were...
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and they begin their long road of education. it's sort of a camp. and the church of scientology for their part denies that. they say no child under 16 is allowed in, officially. so that's number one, she was at that cross roads, needed to make a decision about suri's future, according to several published reports. there is also the fact that they have this prenup. again, we haven't seen those papers, but also, widely reported that after five years of marriage, she gets a certain amount of money. and, you know, they've been married just over five years now. >> so on the scientology side, does she think new york will be more favorable to her interests on getting her away from scientology? >> yeah, she wants full custody. she wants sole custody. and according to "people" magazine, who's spoken to family sources from katie holmes, she doesn't want suri raised as a scientologist, so she wants sole custody to raise her the way she wants, and in new york, the rules are very much favored towards sole custody, whereas in california, they sort of automaticall
and they begin their long road of education. it's sort of a camp. and the church of scientology for their part denies that. they say no child under 16 is allowed in, officially. so that's number one, she was at that cross roads, needed to make a decision about suri's future, according to several published reports. there is also the fact that they have this prenup. again, we haven't seen those papers, but also, widely reported that after five years of marriage, she gets a certain amount of...
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you know, 58 years after brown versus the board of education, schools are still largely separate and unequal. so if dr. king were alive today and walking our american public schools, that's where the tears and the pain would come from, knowing that our children are crippled from the very start. that, you know, they don't have access to quality health care, they don't have access to meaningful jobs or meaningful housing, and a lot of that is trailed back to education. and i think that is the new frontier of the civil rights movement today. that's where the fight is. >> michael eric dyson -- go ahead, michael. >> yeah, and to piggyback on what goldie brilliantly just deconstruct there had, education as well as the over incarceration of african-american men and women. 2 million and some odd people are in prison, half of them happen to be people of color, there for nonviolent drug offenses. michelle alexander brilliantly explores this in her book, "the new jim crow." but beyond that, which is astonishing to me, these candidates don't even admit that their ancestors stood tooth and nail a
you know, 58 years after brown versus the board of education, schools are still largely separate and unequal. so if dr. king were alive today and walking our american public schools, that's where the tears and the pain would come from, knowing that our children are crippled from the very start. that, you know, they don't have access to quality health care, they don't have access to meaningful jobs or meaningful housing, and a lot of that is trailed back to education. and i think that is the new...
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let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> the 1% has had a great run. i want to live in a crown tri that is run by the 100%. >> at a time when the public is run by the right any concerned this administration is going to protect the muppets and by god we are going to protect julia child. >> last night mitt romney says he wants that fight. >> i'm sorry jim, i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. i like pbs and big bird and i like you too. but i'm not going to keep spending moneythings i have to borrow money from china to pay for. >> so don't boo now. but i want to make sure i got this straight. he will get rid of regulations on wall street but he is going to crack down on seseme street. thank goodness somebody is finally cracking down on big bird. n who knew that he was responsible for the deficits elmo has to watch out. >> joining me now nbc's joy read. he is going to cut 1, 100th of 1% of the federal budget by cutting any subsidies that
let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> the 1% has had a great run. i want to live in a crown tri that is run by the 100%. >> at a time when the public is run by the right any concerned this administration is going to protect the muppets and by god we are going to protect julia child. >> last night mitt romney says he wants that fight. >> i'm sorry jim, i'm going to stop the...
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only 7% of girls in malawi complete their high school education. in the rural areas of the country, girls are only 9% of all secondary school student. we've decided to do what we can to help girls stay in schools and stay in the better schools and so the new option you will have when you go to our website will be the option of donating to our girls' tuition program in malawi. and joining me now to discuss our hopes for our new k.i.n.d. tuition fund is my senior partner, carol stern, president and ceo of the u.s. fund for for unicef. thank you for joining me. >> it's great to be back. >> this is something that we started in your conference room in the unicef offices in malawi almost a year and a half ago and the girls' education issue is really critical there. i think what happened in pakistan shows how important it is for education. >> only 7% of girls complete secondary school there and we know a girl who finishes her education is less likely to contract hiv, less likely to be forced into prostitution or trafficked or even forced to marry early. i
only 7% of girls in malawi complete their high school education. in the rural areas of the country, girls are only 9% of all secondary school student. we've decided to do what we can to help girls stay in schools and stay in the better schools and so the new option you will have when you go to our website will be the option of donating to our girls' tuition program in malawi. and joining me now to discuss our hopes for our new k.i.n.d. tuition fund is my senior partner, carol stern, president...
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education and more college graduates and more with a post-college education. but certainly, the racial transformation of the american electorate is really the big story, and it's an ongoing story. it is one that's almost certainly going to continue for the foreseeable future. >> alicia menendez, the question >> no, now you're having one with the fastest growing demographic in the country. and you look at someone like george bush, who was able to win 44% of the latino vote. that then dropped to 31% with john mccain. we now see in some of these polls with mitt romney only polling at 14% with latino voters. so as the country has changed, so too as the republican party. and it has changed in the wrong direction. this is a dynamic electorate. it's a growing electorate. if you had george bush at 44%, if romney was able to meet those numbers, he would be doing incredibly well with hispanics and it would actually put him at margins of victories in a lot of states, but instead he's having a very big problem with this demographic, in large part because the republican pr
education and more college graduates and more with a post-college education. but certainly, the racial transformation of the american electorate is really the big story, and it's an ongoing story. it is one that's almost certainly going to continue for the foreseeable future. >> alicia menendez, the question >> no, now you're having one with the fastest growing demographic in the country. and you look at someone like george bush, who was able to win 44% of the latino vote. that then...
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white college-educated women. that is a small part of a larger group that democrats will need to turn out in november. this conversation about the economy expands to a much larger, much broader group. >> and alicia, these focus groups are great for showing you, i think most interestingly, what voters don't care about. you can pick several of the topics that we talk about here in the course of the week, and they won't care about them at all. they're focused on these other things. >> i think that's absolutely right, though i do think there are some points that do stand out additionally. you know, that these focus groups are one thing. you look at the additional polling about latinas, for example, latina moms, education, a huge issue. and when latina moms think about the dream act, they don't think of that as an immigration issue, they think of that as an education issue. they lump that into their conversations about who in their community is going to be able to go to college, who's going to be able to graduate and c
white college-educated women. that is a small part of a larger group that democrats will need to turn out in november. this conversation about the economy expands to a much larger, much broader group. >> and alicia, these focus groups are great for showing you, i think most interestingly, what voters don't care about. you can pick several of the topics that we talk about here in the course of the week, and they won't care about them at all. they're focused on these other things. >>...
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both of them got a great education. why shouldn't that be good for the rest of us? the fact is, you know, we work hard so our kids will have a better life. in a global economy, predicated on intellectual capital, we know that more and more, college is becoming critical to success in that economy. >> and -- but we should recognize that there are plenty of jobs that don't require college. really, truly, everybody working at l.a.x., los angeles international airport, virtually no jobs there that require college, and they are crucially important, high-paying -- airline mechanics and so forth. and what should we be doing in government to help the flow of people into those kinds of jobs? >> well, very important. as you said, as you clarified, the president didn't say everybody has to go to college, they have to get a skill set. they have to get a year of community college. they need to get the skills that they need to succeed in the world of work. we've been saying for a long time, here in l.a. unified and school districts across the country, that we have to get folks car
both of them got a great education. why shouldn't that be good for the rest of us? the fact is, you know, we work hard so our kids will have a better life. in a global economy, predicated on intellectual capital, we know that more and more, college is becoming critical to success in that economy. >> and -- but we should recognize that there are plenty of jobs that don't require college. really, truly, everybody working at l.a.x., los angeles international airport, virtually no jobs there...
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that produces the net result of what we might call the educated man, the educated woman. i know that in college, the student body was educating me as much as the faculty was. >> yes. >> all due respect, professor. but it's those conversations at 2:00 in the morning. and the fact that i got to know bobby sims from mississippi, whose father grew up a sharecropper, was a very, very important opportunity for me. and that's what i think is lost in this is that it's not all about tests and numbers. >> that's right. the court in 2003 argued that a critical mass of underrepresented students was important to have on college campuses. again, for the purpose of advancing an open pathway to leadership for all people in this country. it's important to point out, also, that, you know, texas excluded explicitly nonwhites from admissions at all levels of their university system until 1950 when the supreme court then had to intervene to, for the first time, allow blacks to enter the law graduate school there. there's a long history of racial exclusion in texas. today when you look at the
that produces the net result of what we might call the educated man, the educated woman. i know that in college, the student body was educating me as much as the faculty was. >> yes. >> all due respect, professor. but it's those conversations at 2:00 in the morning. and the fact that i got to know bobby sims from mississippi, whose father grew up a sharecropper, was a very, very important opportunity for me. and that's what i think is lost in this is that it's not all about tests...